About
A Licensed Psychoanalyst who listens closely to the whole of a person's life, not only the part that hurts.
Read MoreLook at your life with curiosity.
Exploring the patterns, feelings, and relationships that shape your life.
Rebecca Victor, LP-D
Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic Approach
Looking with curiosity at the patterns, feelings and relationships that shape a life.
In plain terms
What psychodynamic therapy is
Psychodynamic therapy starts from a simple idea: much of what we feel and do has roots we are not fully aware of. The way you react when someone is disappointed in you, the kind of partner you choose, the reason rest feels uncomfortable, these often make more sense when you see how they formed.
In sessions you talk freely about what is on your mind. Over time, you and Rebecca notice what repeats: in your relationships, in your feelings, and sometimes in the relationship with her. Those observations become material to think about together.
The goal is not to explain your life away, but to understand it well enough that you have more choice in how you live it.
Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
Two related ways of working
Psychoanalytic work and psychodynamic psychotherapy share the same foundations. Psychoanalysis tends to be more frequent and open-ended; psychodynamic psychotherapy is often weekly and may focus on a particular area of life. Rebecca will talk with you about which makes sense for what you are looking for.
Many approaches to therapy help people. This is the one Rebecca practices, and some people find it suits them because it leaves room for complexity and does not rush toward a fix.
Noticing patterns together
Deep listening includes what you say clearly and what is harder to express. Rebecca may reflect something she notices: a recurring feeling, a familiar response, or a connection between a present concern and an earlier experience. You bring your own understanding to those observations; they are material for a conversation, not the final word on your life.
Support can also include an invitation to reconsider a perspective. Together you can look at patterns that leave you feeling stuck or dissatisfied and discuss what you want to understand. Goals are set collaboratively, with your experience at the center of the work rather than an explanation imposed from outside.
Frequently asked questions
Will you just listen, or will you talk too?
Both. Rebecca listens closely and also offers observations and questions. It is a conversation.
Do we have to talk about childhood?
Only as much as it is useful. Most sessions begin with what is happening now.
